Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
XML is like violence - if it's not working for you, you're not using enough of it.
Anonymous
If a listener nods his head when you're explaining your program, wake him up.
Alan J. Perlis
The first 90% of the code accounts for the first 90% of the development time. The remaining 10% of the code accounts for the other 90% of the development time.
Tom Cargill
Good judgement is the result of experience ... Experience is the result of bad judgement.
Fred Brooks
Never trust a programmer in a suit.
Anonymous
When in doubt, leave it out.
Joshua Bloch
If debugging is the process of removing software bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in.
Edsger Dijkstra
Java is a DSL to transform big Xml documents into long exception stack traces.
Scott Bellware
There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence.
Jeremy S. Anderson
When we understand knowledge-based systems, it will be as before -- except our fingertips will have been singed.
Alan J. Perlis